Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1931, Page 20

CHAIRMEN NAMED FOR MEMORIAL DAY Exercises in Arlington Begin at 12:45 0’Clock on May 30. Announcement was made yesterday of the chairmen who will preside at exercises to be held in the local and national cemeteries in connection with Memorial day exercises, detalls of which have practically been completed by the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Day Corporaticn, under whose auspices the exercises will be held this year. President James G. Yaden of the Grand Army of the Republic Memo- rial Day Corporation will be chairman of the exercises at Arlingtcn National Cemetery, which will start at 12:45 o'clock on Saturday, May 30, and will constitute the largest gathering of veterans_on that day. Assisting him will be Department Commander Sam- uel G. Mawson of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department Ccmmander Benjamin F. Motley, United Spanish War Veterans; Department ' Com- mander Willlam L, Thomas, Veterans of Forelgn Wars; Department Com- mander B. C. MacNeil, the American Legion, and Department Commander Lee T. Turner, Disabled American Vet- erans. Start at 9 O'Clock. At 9 o'clock cn the morning of Me- morial day exercises will start in the National Cemetery, United States Sol- diers' Home, with Department Com- mander Benjamin F. Motley, United Spanish War Veterans, presiding. The exercises at Congressional Cemetery will start at 10 o'clock, with Dr. Wililam Tindall, junior vice com- mander of g;mGnnd Army of the Republic, pr 8. Xt Bl'.ge Ground National Ceme- tery at 3:15 omn Memorial day exer- cises will be held, with Senior Vice Commander Jobn M. Kline of the Grand Army of the Republic presiding as chairman and John Clagett Proctor, vice chairman, representing the Bright- wood Citizens' Association. Commander Victor E. Watkins of Richard J. Harden Camp, United Spanish War Veterans, will be the presiding chairman of the programs at Glenwood, Prospect Hill and St. Mary's Cemeterles, while at Mount Olivet Cemetery, George A. Howe of Lincoln Camp, No. 2, Sons of Union Vetera of the Civil War, will be chairman. Charles W. McCaffrey, United Span- ish War Veterans, who has been select-, ed by the Grand Army of the Re- public as grand marshal of the ‘parade on Memorial day, will be the chair- man of the.exercises to be held at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Will Decorate Graves. William E. Porter, commander of George Washington Post, No. 1, the American Legion, is chairman of the committee that will . decorate the graves and have charge of the pro- gram at Rock Creek Oemetery, as in former years. Exercises at Holy Rood and Oak Hill Cemeterles will be under the chair- manship this year of Joseph H, Beck- with, ccmmander of William B. Cush- ing Camp, No. 30, Sons of Veterans of the Civil War. Commander Jacob N. Halper of Vin- cent B. Costello "i‘olti‘ N:.‘l 15, '.h; American Legicn, will chairman of the exercises to be held at the Hebrew cemeteries. The chairman of the programs at Harmony, Woodlawn, Northeast, Payne and Lincoln Memorial Cemeteries is West A. Hamilton of James E. Walker Post, No. 26, American Legion. The 'isolated graves in Cedar Hill Cemetery will be in charge of Depart- ment Commander Willlam L. Thomas of the Veterans of Forelgn Wars, and Commander Egbert E. Corwin of Ste- phen P. McGroarty Post, No.. 27, Amer- ican Legion, is chairman of the ccm- mittee in charge of the memorial ex- ercises at Fort Lincoln Cemetery. Flags on Markers. The memorial markers on Sixteenth street will be decorated with flags and popples by the American Gold Star Mothers, with Mrs. George G. Seibold as chairman of the committee. The placing of wreaths and flowers on the various statues throughout the city will be in charge of Willlam P. Franklin of Vincent B. Costello Post, No. 15, wha has been selected as chair- man cf this committee. The exercises for airmen at Key Bridge will again be in charge of a committee, with Mrs. M. M. North 2s chairman, of the Woman's Relief Corps, while Mrs. Bertha R. Cook, department president of auxiliaries cf the United Spanish War Veterans, is chairman of the committee placing flowers on the Potomac. R A A MOUNTAIN SLAYER GIVEN LIFE TERM Charles Lam Had Predicted Sen- tence Before Trial in Rockingham. Special Dispatch to The Star. HARRISONBURG, Va, May 9— Just as he intimated in s letter written two days before his trial, Charles Rufus Lam, 24, mountain lad and de- serter from the United States Coast Artillery, late today learned that he must spend the rest of his days in priscn. A jury in Rockingham Circuit Court found him guilty of first-degree mur- der for the shooting of Robert Dawis, 59, widowed father of nine children. his friend and neighbor, on April 9§ last, and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment. Furnace, the abandoned iron ore mine settlement in northeastern Rock- ingham's Blue Ridge focthills, was the scene of the tragedy in which neigh- bors of 17 years were involved. In his last words in court Lam main- tained that he shot Davis to prctect the honor of his 15-year-old sister, Pauline. Just before he was to be sentenced by Judge H. W. Bertram, Lam arose erect in scldlerly posture to say it wouldn't have happened if it hadn't been for the honor of his sister. He was greatly disappointed over the ver- dict, which he considered to> severe Lam displayed no more emotion over the verdict than he has interest in the three -day proceedings. countenance never changed, but he felt he was being made the “gcat” of moonshine rivalry in a community that has a reputation of producing contra- band spirits. Two days before the trial cpened Thursday, and unbeknown to his coun- sel and officers, Lam wrote his father, George William Lam, “I don’t think that they will give me the electric chair. I may get a life sentence in priscn, but I hope it won't be that much.” In this letter he told the father that it wasn't his fault, that “I was made drunk and led into this" He accused Russell Eppard, who was ‘arrested in the court house ‘Thursday, ®s an accomplice, of %Ing:uln.; the fatal shooting. Eppard an vis were “on the outs” over moonshine, he sald. SRR Fire Department to Meet. ST e yattsville Volunteer t will meet Monday nigh the Municipal Buflding at 8 o'clock. His | Fire. Be- ¢ in THE SUNDAY STAR Their Work Nearing End P[]I.I[:E PARA[]E lEl] PONTIFICAL FIELD MASS T0BE HELD Second Event Ever Held in This Country Expected to Draw 50,000. ‘The first pontifical military fleld mass ever held.in the National Capital will be witnessed by nearly 50,000 per- sons gathered from citles and towns throughout the Baltimore Archdiocese in Catholic University Stadium Thurs- day when the annual religious demon- stration of the Catholic Students’ Mis- sion Crusade is staged. Plans for the event were completed last night by the committee of Catholic school students of Washington, who are hosts to the visitors. Arrangements were made for establishment of first- aid stations in the stadium. Ten Wash- ington physicians have volunteered their services for Thursday morning. These will be augmented by nursing staffs from Georgetown University Hos- pital and Providence Hospital. Physicians Volunteer. ; ‘The physicians who will be on duty include Dr. Stuart Lyddane, Dr. Wil- liam , Dr. Matthew Donahue, Dr. Richard berg, Dr. Raymond Hol- den, jr.; Dr. Stephen A. Yesko, Dr. Joseph McHale, . U. 8. A. Medical A Ready and Dr. Bern: 8. French. uads of policemen will be on duty to traffic and to assist in parking. Miss Evangeline Rice, publicity direc- tor, made public the names of the dip- lomats who have accepted invitations to the mass. These are Tytus Filipo- wicz, Ambessador from Poland, and Mme. Filipowicz; Manuel E, Malbrau, Ambassador of Argentina; Eduardo Diez_de Medina, Minister of Bolivia, and Senora Diez de Medina; Pedro Ma- nuel Arcaya, Minister of Venezuela; Aly Ismail Bey, Minister of Egypt, and Mme. Bey; Michael MacWhite, Minister | Prochnik, Minister of Austria: Bronius Don Fernando E. Piza, Minister of Costa |Rica; Leonide Pitamic, Minister of Ju- | goslavia; Mr. and Mrs. Dermody of the | Japanese Embassy, and Pablo M. Yus- fram, charge d'affaires of Paraguay, and Senora Yusframt. Prominent clergymen of other de- nominations who also have accepted in- vitations include Rabbi Abram Simon of the Washington Hebrew Congrega- tion, and member of the Board of Edu- cation of the District of Columbia. Second in U. 8. kind ever presented in the United States. The first, said last year in Bal- timore, was presented under the aus- pices of the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade. The mass Thursday will be- gin_immediately after a procession at 9:30 o'clock. The Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, will pontifi- cate the mass, while Mgr. James Hugh Ryan, rector of Catholic University, will preach the sermon. Rear Admiral memm 8. Benson, U. 8. N.. retired, | will be personal alde to the archbishop, |while Thomas Panghorn will be aide. |Rev. W. Milholland will be master of ceremontes. | A choir of 4,000 Catholic students will provide the music for the mass, un- der direction of Rev. J. Leo Barley. ARMY ORDERS Col. Daniel W. Hand, Field Artillery, at Port Ethan Allen, Vt., has been as- signed to the command of the general depot _at Fort Mason, Calif.; Chaplain Hal C. Head. at Fort Slocum, N. Y., has been assigned*to duty as transport ichaplain on the route between New York and San Prancisco; Capt. Edward Perg, Quartermaster Corps, at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., and Capt. John H. | Dawson, Medical Corps. at 8an Antonlo, | Tex., have been ordered to their homes ,to await retirement; Capt. James A. Kilian, Cavi has been transferred from the Michigan State College of Ag- ricujture at Lansing to the Moter Transport School at Holabird, Md. Left to'right: Miss Evangeline Rice, chairman of publicity; Miss Helen Ruppert, director of motion picture newsreel operations, and Miss Nellle McCor- mick, Transportation Committee chairman, who last night completed final plans for the pontificial military fleld mass to be held here Thursday under the auspices of the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade. —=Star Staff Photo. Dr. Frank | of the Irish Free State; Edgar L. G.| Kasimir Balutis, Minister of Lithuania; | ‘Thursday's mass is the second of its | ROSSLYN PROJECT MEETS APPROVAL Civic Groups to Have Chance for Waterfront Project Consideration. A proposed plan for the development of the Rosslyn, Va., water front, under which park and commercial projects would be represented, sugges by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, has been approved in principle. It is being laid before Ar- lington County, Va.,, authorities for study and action. One of the outstanding features of this new program is the plan for a county wharf, to be located below Key Bridge, with an adjoining rafiroad track and & pump house. The tracks would overpass the George Washington Memo- rial Parkway, traveling southward to the community wharf, enabling the use of facilities for freight and for excur- sion boats in the territory served by the Washington and Old Dominion Electric Raflway. Plan Up fo Organizations. ‘The plan was prepared by Charles W. Eliot, 2d, director of planning of the commission, and C. L. Kinnier, di- recting engineer of Arlington County, Va. The Arlington County Chamber of Commerce, the Rosslyrl Business Men's Association;, the Arlington County Board of Supervisors and other civic organi- zations in the area will be given oppor- tunity to express their opinions on the new plan. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, vice chairman and executive cfficer of the National Capital Park and -Planning Commission; its engineer, Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., and A. Riker, in- dustrial consultant, have had a major part in the preparation of the plan and referring it to the interested authorities. # Connection is made from Hume street to the lower level, under the plan, and the highway of the George Washington Memorial Parkway passes under the Key Bridge, as does the proposed rail- way bridge to the county wharf. Analostan Island, now is process of condemnation so that Uncle S8am ‘may acquire it for park purposes, would be linked by a bridge t) ths Rosslyn area, affording a highway to the Arlington Memocrial Bridge, across Little River. The parkway highway runs northwest- ward to Spout Run and on to Great | Palls. Boundary Decision Important. ‘The new decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, holding that the Federal Government and District of Columbia property go to the high water mark of 1791 on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, will have an impor- Surveys will likely be undertaken soon to determine the exact extent of this, ‘The commission is not inclined to have commercial development upstream of Key Bridge at Rosslyn, as the struc- ture across the river has no draw span and the old Aqueduct piers are still in position and it is not known when they will be removed. To put & pier above the Key Bridge at that point, the cffi- cials of the commission say, would be 1o destroy the park value of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. Wood- | ed sections above Rosslyn must be pre- | served for park purposes, the commis- | sion says. Flood control considerations also enter into the program. Highways Hit Rosslyn. A wider circular development at Ross- lyn’s front door is proposed undér the new program suggested by the commis- sion, with a number of proposed thor- oughfares leading iInto it. The pro- posed Lee Highway connection would give access to Washington-bound traffic, as well as permitting egress into the park drive and southward to the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, across Co- lumbia Island. While plans are now actively afoot to improve the Rosslyn water front, ef- forts are being made likewise to have suitable chang:s made on the Washing- ton side of the Key Bridge. At the foot of Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth and M streets, it is tentatively planned to have park treatment given to the hill- side to eliminate the trafic hazards lhfl; and to facilitate the movement of traffic. 'DYING MAN REQUESTS HIS ASHES BE CAST FROM LIBERTY STATUE | Clivette, Whose Work Varied From Tight-Rope Walker to Sculptor, Expires By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 9.—Before he died yesterday Merton Clivette left instruc- tions that his ashes be taken to the top of the Statue of Liberty and cast “East, North, West and South to the eternal, for I am an eternalist.” His friends considered it a gesture typical of his life. Clivette, a recognized artist, and at various times a store- circus press agent and showman, lived a eareer in Keeper, rider, tight-rope performer, acrobat, knife thrower, wl-;l‘ch the unusual was, commonplace. e “super be called himself & genius and a Baron Munchausen.” He sald was the suthor of 45 books on Iphuowphy. business, politics, literature, music and the occult. As a peychic, he said, he was consulted by King Edward, Queen Victoria and Lord Kitchener. He was a publicity agent for P. T. Barnum. He studied painting under La Parge and Chase, sculpture under Rodin. He often exhibited in Paris and was said to be the only man whose work hung In the Luxembourg Gallerles while he still lived. Clivette was one of the men who made fhe fame of Greenwich Village. His shop in S dnn&fix”ne'ucm the show of village 10 - BYINMIEWALKER Tumultuous Greeting Given Mayor and Blue Coats in Six-Mile March. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 9.—Top hat glistening in the sun, Mayor James J. Walker jauntily led a third of his police force up Fifth avenue . through the heart of Manhattan today and got a tumultuous greeting. Six miles, the mayor tramped, from the Battery to the middle 60's, at the head of a long column of blue coats and polished brass buttons, and, as the crowds on the sidewalks cheered, he drew laughter from those about him with his badinage. It was the annual police parade, with 6.000 men in line, and it was a typical New York scene—an excellent show, smartly costumed and gay. Although both the mayor and the police depart- ment have been targets for considerable public criticism in recent months, there ‘was no hint of it in the welcome they recelved from the crowds that packed the sidewalks along the line of march. ‘There were cheers, too, for Police Commissioner Mulrooney, marching be- side the mayor, something of a herp WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY himself since he led his men Thursday night up into the West Side apartment where Francis Crowley, the killer, had barricaded himself to shoot it out with the officers. Near Madison Square & man ran out firing & pistol in the air. It turned out to be a toy gun and ‘the mayor laughed and shook hands with him. At St. Patrick’s thedral Mayor Walker caught sight of Cardinal Hayes and other high churchmen seated on a green dias on the steps. He ran uj the steps, bowed to Cardinal, Kkissed his ring, greeted the other pre- lates and hurried back to his place. At 67th street the mayor fell out of line and.took his place in a review- ing stand. GROUP PLANS LECTURE .dept of The Star. B R OOKEVILLE, Md, May 8. —The old Brookeville Academy, Which has stood since 1808, will be the scene Fri- day afternoon of a lecture sponsored by the Church Service League of Olney to raise funds to renovate the old struc- ture. Miss Grace Lincoln Temple, Wash- ington interior decorator, is to talk on the subject “Hunting Old Wallpaper.” ‘The monéy obtained from the lecture will be used in converting the academy | into a community center. Schm;{ i’lly Friday Night. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., May 9F (Special).—“A Full House,” the senior play of Upper Marlboro High School, will be presented in Trinity Hall Friday night. Miss Joseph E. Wilson is the director. 10, 1931—PART ONE. TRIAL OF CROWLEY SET FOR MONDAY Slayer of New York Police- man Pleads Guilty From From Hospital Bed. . By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 9 —Francis Crow- ley, confessed slayer of a policeman, raised his head from a hospital pillow today and signified to a black-robed Judge that he wanted to die quickly. “How do you ple: demanded County Judge Smith, who had gone to Nassau County Hospital to preside at | the arraignment of Crowley for first- degree murder. “Guilty,” demurred the wounded youth after a look at detectives stand- grimly about his bed. “Under the law,” Judge Smith said, “I cannot accept that plea. The evi- dence must be presented in court. Have you any money to retain a lawyer?” “No,” said Crowley. Thereupon _ the judge appol Charles R. Weeks to defend him set the trial for Monday. Meanwhile Nassau County police gave Patrolman Frederick Hirsch, victim of Crowley’s bullets, an inspector's funeral. Salvatore Russo, 19, informed District Attorney Edwards that Crowley and inted and SEEKS OLD PLAGE Duringer were paid $150 each to take Jonathan E. Perkins, head of a Los Angeles organisption. No detalls have disclosed other than the statement that it tells facts of the cPherson kidnaping of Mrs. M known only to AIMEE'S MOTHER Harriet Jordan, dean of the Temple Bible school; the Rev. Charles A. Shreve, resident pastor, and B. F. Gurden, head of the missionary de- partment. Mrs. Kennedy recently has been eon- fined to bed from {llness which friends said followed worry over her split with her daughter. Mrs. McPherson, who has been on a trip around the world, is expected to return here Sati y. 'gh}:{ br;:kvhw""f‘ Mrs. ennedy an rs. McPherson followed & dispute By the Associated Press. | over assignment of authorif Tem| LOS ANGELES, May 9.—The Express | posmom.m i . sald today that friends of Mrs. Minnle | - Kennedy. who has been in, dissgreement | 0 ROUES TQ CELEBRATE for several months with her daughter, | Special Dispateh to The Star. Aimee ple McPherson, the evangel- ist, have begun ‘l ngl:tbmmnsmm her to management of tI usiness affairs of Angelus Temple, which the mother | UPFPER MARLBORO. Md, May 9.— and daughter founded here eight years Special Mother's day services will be g0. | conducted in Trinity Episcopal Church The campalgn of Mrs. Kennedy's | ¥as = Ao bRl t!;“,;:‘en tomorrow morning at’ 11 o'clock. forthcoming publication of & book which |1t Wil be a family reunion day st the would_disclose hitherto unknown facts | Church. ‘There will be musie concerning the famous McPherson | by e choir. A box lun will be |in order at 1 o'clock in the parish hall kidnaping case. supplied by M| Ugpecia) Mother's day services also Kennedy, and the circulation of secret | .yi/"}a held in historic St. Barnabas petitions’ asking the removal of four | of the evangelist’s principal aides. f:";‘_"h at Leeland, starting at 9:30 The book has been written by “Ma” Kennedy's Friends| Start Fight for Return to Angelue Temple. | Americans were behind the formation ‘for & ride” of societies like the World Association | for Adult Education and the Inter- University Virginia Brannen, dancer, because the vice syndicate feared she might testify at the Seabury vice in- | national quiry. 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